Evidence for the existence of God

[Andir]

Grey Acumen said:

your scenario has two possibile outcomes.

1) You refuse to admit God exists despite him actually coming down and doing everything you have just now said.

2) God proves beyond your ability to deny that he exists. You now no longer have any choice but to believe that he exists. You've given up your free will.

So basically, God gave you free will and will not take it away. You have the choice to beleive or not believe that he exists, but because he loves all of his children, he will respect that choice no matter how wrong it may be or how much trouble you're going to be giving yourself in the end. Of course, just because we respect the fact that you have free will doesn't mean the rest of us aren't going to do our best to point out where your logic is flawed in order to keep you from doing something that you'll end up regretting.

God isn't a Genie. He created us, and so he has no need to hop around catering to our whims. The idea that him not showing up at your beck and call as being any sign of his inexistence is downright retarded. 

 

There you go again, degrading me and putting yourself on a higher platform.  If it's not calling me immature, it's because I have some sort of brain defect.  I see a pattern emerging here.  There MUST be something wrong with me because I refuse to believe what cannot be proven.

And your argument goes back to the cop out counterpoint that God exists and is all powerful, but since we are merely pawns in some greater scheme, we are beneath him and must just accept.  For refusing to accept that we are meaningless sheep is denying the word of God.  What a depressing viewpoint.  "Just accept it because I say so, and you can't change it."  "I don't need to prove that I exist because I said so."  Or, how would I phrase it... "Your wants and needs don't matter, because I am the only on e here that matters.  Just live with it, and get me my bacon bitches!"

 

Edit:  also... I would argue that I'm not giving up my free will.  I would still have the choice to follow his word and be accepted into the club when I die... So that argument could quickly be nullified.